"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name
misspelled in the newspapers."

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"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies,
which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

William Tecumseh Sherman

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"...we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard
hand of war, as well as their organized armies. I know that this recent movement of mine through Georgia has had a wonderful
effect in this respect. Thousands who had been deceived by their lying newspapers to believe that we were being whipped all the
time now realize the truth, and have no appetite for a repetition of the same experience...

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for
that State, the invariable reply was, "Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon
you for your desolation of Georgia."